Occupation: Greek Physician Birth: 460 Bc Death: 370 Bc
Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses ….
Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm..
If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool..
The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it.
Everything in excess is opposed to nature..
Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food..
All disease starts in the gut..
Physicians are many in title but very few in reality..
I am about to discuss the disease called 'sacred'. It is not, in my opinion, any more divine or more sacred that other diseases, but has a natural ca….
Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing ….
Look to the seasons when choosing your cures.
Life is short and the art long..
Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things--to help, or at least ….
For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art..
Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm..
Correct is to recognize what diseases are and whence they come; which are long and which are short; which are mortal and which are not; which are in ….
That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away..
For extreme illnesses extreme treatments are most fitting..
The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine..
Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance..
Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath.... Thin people who want to get….